The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-04
A WONDERFUL WELL.
A Singular Phenomenon in the South
west-Supposed to be Magnetic and
Healing.

A Singular Phenomenon in the South
west Supposed to be Magnetic and
Healing.
dispatch from FL Paso, Tex, to the
Missouri Republican says: About 40
miles east of FL Paso near Sierra Blanca,
on the line of the Texas and Pacific rail
road, there is strange phenomenon that
has just come to public notice The au-
thority for the statements about to be made
is cX-Ctov John G. Brown of Tennessee,
receiver of the Texas and Pacific, who
visited this city a few days ago, accom-
panied by several officials of the road, in
Guiding Division Superintendent Judy, in
whose jurisdiction the phenomenon is 10
Gated. Gov. Brown and Supt. Judy told
the story to one or two persons here
and it has just come to the reporters ears.
About three years ago the Texas and Pacific
Railway Company undertook to sink an
arteslan well a few miles below Sierra
Blanca, which is little hamlet ninety-five
miles east of Ell Paso. The workmen put
the pipe down about 600 feet, when suddenly
an underground cavern was struck, the
drill dropping about six feet and current
of air rushed up the pipe. Drilling ceased
and the well was abandoned, the GOO feet of
pipe remaining i'll tho ground and giving n
connection between the surface of the earth
Lilt CAVITY IL utltll
ter of a mile beneath.
The phenomenon did not at that time at
tract the attention of anyone sufficiently in
terested to investigate. Recently, however,
Supt. Judys attention was called
to it, and his personal examination and in
quiries have developed peculiar facts and
testimony about the wonderful we'll Gov.
Brown stopped to see it on his way here,
Not many people live near the well, but
those who do reside in the neighbor-
hood of it are thoroughly acquainted with
it ever since it was abandoned three years
ago. The people near by have been IN the
habit of going and sitting about the well in
summer to enjoy the cool, in
vigorating air that rusbes up the
pipe One of the strangeSt things is
the fact that the current of air Gibbs and
flows like the ocean tides From about
10:l5 a. m. till 1915 p. m. current of air
PUSHES out of the pipe with a sound that re-
sembles the noise made by a locomotive
blowing off steam, and so loud that it can
be heard for forty or fifty yards. At 1915
p. m. the overflow air ceases and strong
suction sets in, which lasts for the next
twelve hours, this ebb and flow continuing
day after day, and it has been observed by
horsemen that whenever they get in the
neighborhood of this well strong magnetic
forces are felt, and sparks are given off if
the horses name is touched.
Recently a man from Sierra Blanca was
sitting close to the well and on taking out
his pocket-knifc found nail which he had
in his pocket clinging TO the knife, He held
the knife in The current of the air and found
the magnetic property was greatly in
creased. Several weeks ago Supt. Judy
held his pocltct-knife in the current of air
for four minutes, and the knife is still
strongly magnotized from the effect. The
Outhowng current of air is believed to pos
sess remarkable curative properties Its
efficiency is to he tested by experiments
upon cases of paralysis and other diseases.
The people who hive near the wonderful well
call 1t the fountain of YOUTH